Sure, the rate has slowed a bit since the first 24 hours but I’m pretty darn sure that in the next 24 hours we’ll be passing the 1,000,000 download mark – a fantastic run so soon! As a product guy it just floors me to think that any application can have such a presence as to get millions of downloads for every. single. version. If WordPress was commercial it would be a dream for a financially motivated company. Stoked to see it grow even bigger than the previous numbers from 3.4, which Ryan Imel captured as north of 28MM downloads and then […]

Now there’s an idea…! Pippin (his gravatar look so mischievous!) , from Pippin’s Plugins, has launched a new somewhat satirical blog cleverly (or not so cleverly) named “Crappy Code” where he’ll showcase some of the terrible coding practices that he stumbles upon in his quest to discover and review WordPress plugins. The stated goals are simple: Educate others about bad code Give real examples of bad code and learn from it Have fun

It’s Wednesday and every wednesday is the so-called “hump day” – where you realize that the first half of the week is already gone (and that you may not have accomplished everything you had hoped) and you look toward the back-end of the week and realize that you *gasp* have another full 3 days to go. Oh, the horror! That’s where WP Daily’s #WPHumpDay comes in where we join together, encourage and challenge each other to make it through (or at least survive).

There have been a host of major changes in the release of 3.5 and developers are going to have a field day with some of new changes that have been made recently (all which you can see directly here). I’m especially appreciating some of the multisite changes as we’ve been experimenting with that particular build for some projects and looking to deploy something neat this coming year. Justin Sternberg and Andrew Nacin have called out a few key things of note though through the core blog that will catch a few developers up to speed as they first dig in, […]